The GetMember method does not return members in a particular order, such as alphabetical or declaration order. Your code must not depend on the order in which members are returned, because that order varies.

The following BindingFlags filter flags can be used to define which members to include in the search:

You must specify either BindingFlags.Instance or BindingFlags.Static in order to get a return.

Specify BindingFlags.Public to include public members in the search.

Specify BindingFlags.NonPublic to include non-public members (that is, private and protected members) in the search.

Specify BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy to include public and protected static members up the hierarchy; private static members in inherited classes are not included.

The following BindingFlags modifier flags can be used to change how the search works:

BindingFlags.IgnoreCase to ignore the case of name.

BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly to search only the members declared on the Type, not members that were simply inherited.

If the current Type represents a constructed generic type, this method returns the MemberInfo with the type parameters replaced by the appropriate type arguments.

If the current Type represents a type parameter in the definition of a generic type or generic method, this method searches the members of the class constraint, or the members of Object if there is no class constraint.

Note:

For generic methods, do not include the type arguments in name. For example, the C# code GetMember("MyMethod<int>") searches for a member with the text name "MyMethod<int>", rather than for a method named MyMethod that has one generic argument of type int.

Platform Notes

Silverlight for Windows Phone

GetMember does not return any public members with the specified name if the name string is a regular expression.